Study Library

Pre Colonial Era

'Funeral Oration of Pericles' Book II, (5th Century B.C.E.)

Thucydides: The Melian Dialogue (416 B.C.)

Pre Colonial Era

Polybius, The Histories (trans. Waterfield), Book Six, Chs. 3-18 (3rd Century C.E.)

Polybius, The Histories (trans. Waterfield), Book Six, Chs. 3-18 (3rd Century C.E.)

Pre Colonial Era

Magna Carta (1215)

Pre Colonial Era

Vindiciae contra Tyrannos

Brutus, in Constitutionalism and Resistance in the Sixteenth Century (ed. J. H. Franklin)

Colonial Era

Virginia Articles, Laws, and Orders (1610-1611)

Virginia Articles, Laws, and Orders (1610-1611)

Colonial Era

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Colonial Era

Petition of Right (1628)

Petition of Right (1628)

Colonial Era

Charles I, 'Propositions Made by Both Houses of Parliament with His Majesties Answer Thereunto' (1642)

Charles I, 'Propositions Made by Both Houses of Parliament with His Majesties Answer Thereunto' (1642)

Colonial Era

Little Speech on Liberty (1645)

John Winthrop

Colonial Era

The Agreement of the People (January 15, 1648/49)

Colonial Era

English Bill of Rights (1689)

Colonial Era

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Chapter VIII: 'Of the Beginning of Political Societies;' Chapter IX: 'Of the Ends of Political Society and Government